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November 16th, 2022 RELIEF News By Simona Denise Frederiksen Images: Featured (“Lightning”) and inline (Photo of Sereen) “Keep on Going,…

To our readers, We are excited to announce that RELIEF will now serve as the archive of content originally published…

Getting the word ‘daft’ published in the BMJ was a highpoint of my career, but signing out of BIM with…

When I first entered an experimental pain laboratory, I had no idea what to expect. I was a newbie to…

A “walk in the park” is more difficult than it sounds for someone with Peripheral Arterial Disease. This condition, called…

For decades we have known that treatment outcomes for people with low back pain have been suboptimal. The research community…

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a complex disorder that commonly results in diminished physical function, poor quality of life, and reduced…

This is a very good summary and commentary regarding the osteoarthritis (OA) and brain training research project [1] that dominated…

In the last three decades we have witnessed the expansion of the scientific study of pain and its treatment: from…

Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders with a global annual prevalence of 37% [1]. People with…

Mindset. It’s an interesting, some would say controversial topic. Carol Dweck and colleagues [1] first started investigating school students’ attitudes…

Similar to developed countries, low back pain (LBP) is the biggest cause of disability in developing countries such as Nepal…

There is substantial variability in the clinical course of people presenting with acute low back pain (LBP) – pain that…

Some time ago we reported here about the effect of visual induced analgesia on experimental pain in chronic back pain…

Goal setting is well accepted amongst healthcare workers and is included in guidelines in the management of chronic low back…

Pain neuroscience education (PNE) has changed our practice as clinicians, our knowledge and the way we interact with patients. But…

“The way I look back at physio now, was that it was just the hell I had to go through…

How do you describe a pain like dysmenorrhea, or painful sex, or vulval pain, or the pain of endometriosis, to…

The left/right judgment task (LRJT)[1] is enjoying popularity in clinical practices to assess and manage people with persistent pain. The…

A middle aged patient with slow onset shoulder pain was concerned about the results of a left shoulder ultrasound that…

Dan Van Der Laan has been a trusted Ride Guide and supporter of Pain Revolution for the past two Rural…

Around 20 years ago, researchers started asking questions about the relationship between sensorimotor incongruence (SMI) and chronic non-specific pain conditions….

Many of you will be asking why this topic? I had an accident in 2012 where I was diagnosed with…

Catastrophizing has long been implicated in many poor outcomes in chronic pain-related conditions in both adults and children [3,4,11,12,14,15,18,20,22,24,29]. Scholars…

There is considerable evidence demonstrating the multi-dimensional nature of non-specific low back pain (NSCLBP)[1], and recent guidelines and mission statements…